Image Credit: Prayitno/FlickrSo what if Cisco is setting up its cloud infrastructure eight years after Amazon? Now Cisco is bringing in telecommunications companies, existing cloud providers, and systems integrators to its “Intercloud” cloud initiative. BT, Deutsche Telekom, Equinix, NTT Data, and Virtustream have joined in on the effort, alongside existing participants like NTT’s Dimension Data, Red Hat, and Telstra, according to a statement today from Cisco.